Studio: international art (34.1905)

Designs for Domestic Architecture

pinnacles have all been
alike found wanting, is that
beauty in building inheres
less in features than in
proportion, and that while
sincerity and truth are
qualities which can only
be omitted under severest
penalties, there is no penalty
whatever attached to the
omission of ornament; and
those whose minds are
anxiously exercised in the
choice of a drawing-room
wall paper may find com-
fort in the conclusion that
there are no laws human
or divine which compel the
use of anything more ex-
pensive than a coat of ' vl u

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does not admit of an ex-
planation as to why modern a hillside house : the corridor m. h. baii.lie scott, architect
decoration should be

avoided in most cases ; but it may be safely The pair of almshouses illustrated on p. 336 were
stated that, inasmuch as decoration fulfils no designed by Messrs. Woolfall and Eccles, architects,
practical function, the only excuse for its existence of Liverpool, and recently have been erected in the
is its undoubted beauty, and beauty in decoration picturesque village of Bidston, Cheshire. It was
is the result of delight in work which, under intended that they should accord with the fine old
modern conditions, is rarely attainable. church and with other buildings of the same period

a hillside house : the dining room

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m. h. baillie scott, architect